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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said there were signs that artificial intelligence was used in some hacking attacks

Investigation launched

South Korea warns of possible AI use in banking hacks

The South Pacific is among the regions of the world most vulnerable to global warming -- from rising seas jeopardising homes to increasing temperatures causing coral bleaching

One of world's least visited countries

Leaders visit Pacific's Tuvalu on frontline of climate change

US player Coco Gauff hits a return to China's Sun Xinran during their singles match at the China Open in Beijing

Coco Gauff calls out online racism following China Open video review

Robots ranged from bipedal humanoids to dog-like quadripeds

EU vows AI rules will protect Europeans. Will they?

Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing attends a meeting with Russian President at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, on August 18, 2026

5,000 agreed to 'voluntary' return

Myanmar leader to visit Malaysia after migrant returns begin

Purple yam sprout at a farm in Padre Garcia, Batangas province

Trend-setting sensation

Purple reign: Philippines seeks to keep grip on ube throne

A South Korean military guard post is seen through a military fence at Imjingak peace park near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas, in Paju on September 30, 2026

Injured three soldiers

Seoul weighs steps to force North Korea landmine apology

Net overseas migration -– the net gain or loss to the population through movement to and from Australia -– stood at 292,100 in the year to March, data showed last month

If it takes power

Australia's opposition vows 'largest cut to immigration' in country's history

The Houthis have effectively encircled the city of Taiz

Declared offensive

Yemen's Houthis say struck Riyadh airport, other Saudi sites

Supporters of the separatist Parti Quebecois celebrate results in Canada's provincial election

Return to power?

Separatists win Quebec election in test for Canada PM

The COP31 climate summit is being held in the Turkish city of Antalya in November.

Major progress not expected

COP31 eyes modest steps as climate disasters multiply

In a surprise result that defied opinion polls, Bolsonaro won 2.2 million votes more than the veteran leftist Lula

Surprise result

Bolsonaro rides right-wing surge into Brazil's election runoff

Alexander Ovechkin is in his 22nd season with the Washington Capitals, the team he has represented ever since arriving in the United States in 2005

22nd season with Washington Capitals

NHL record-breaker Ovechkin says current season will be his last

US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth was awarded the 2026 Nobel prize in medicine along with German scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel

'Long-sought goal'

American Nobel laureate in medicine hopes to illuminate the brain

AI researcher Jacob Coxon testifies at a city council hearing in New York on October 5, 2026

Pursuing unassigned objectives

'Reckless' AI firms can't control models, says whistleblower

A photo released by the Bell County Sheriffs Department, shows Nidal Hasan on April 9, 2010

First of its kind since 1961

Trump approves firing squad for convicted US military base shooter

Anthropic said its Claude chatbot leads more than a quarter of its research and development work

Rethinking student evaluations

Grappling with 'homework scams,' US universities shun AI detectors

The McDougall Creek wildfire burns in British Columbia, Canada was one of several blazes serious blazes in 2023, Canada's worst wildfire season on record

Unprecedented in Canadian legal history

Young Canadians sue government over alleged climate failures

Michael Olise and Desire Doue led France's comeback against Belgium in the Nations League

France roar back in Nations League as Italy beat Turkey

Archer had revealed in 2014 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer

'Master storyteller'

Best-selling British author Jeffrey Archer dies aged 86

Lionel Messi was Argentina's hero again, at the age of 39

Dawn of a new era

Messi readies for final farewell in Argentina send-off

President Bola Tinubu (C) confirmed the fatal crash

National mourning

Military plane crash kills 32 in Nigeria

More than 5,000 people, 87 percent of them minors, have been arrested during the nationwide protests

Teenager loses hand picking up grenade in France school protests

The euro's slide follows an underwhelming 2027 budget plan unveiled last week fanned concerns that French government spending will remain high ahead of next year's presidential elections in which the far-right Marine Le Pen, seen as a fiscal populist, stands a chance of winning

Underwhelming budget plan

Euro slides as concerns about French debt mount

President Donald Trump said the US was ready to help Russia with the reported plague case

'Rumours and speculations'

Russia downplays plague reports as Trump offers US help

Protestors gather outside the US Supreme Court as it hears a climate case that could upend dozens of lawsuits aimed at making oil companies pay for their role in global warming

Seeking damages from oil companies

US Supreme Court considers bid to shut the door on climate suits

A US Air Force B-1 Lancer bomber is pictured on the tarmac at RAF Fairford base in Fairford, south-west England on September 27, 2026

Claims of 'new threat'

Trump says US moved bombers from UK base after 'threats'

The Ibovespa index hit a record high of almost 210,000 points after the presidential election Sunday

Surprise first-round result

Brazilian stocks surge to record after Bolsonaro election lead

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